Bolshevik movement Flashcards
Planned obsolescence
Everything we purchase is deliberately designed to break or become outdated in 3 to 5 years
Conspicuous consumption
The highly marked up purchases . Mass produces manufactured goods intended to convey a sense of social status . Because new trends, styles, fads, changes are deliberately times by corporations
The paradigm of insatiable
Consumption : needs play a relatively small role in why we buy things
Negative asset paradigm
We are always in a state of debt. We are struggling to pay out bills. We defer debt by paying it off Over time which makes the banks rich
Karl Marx
- The communist manifesto
* Das Kapital
Proliterate
The masses who perform physical labor in order to make a living. No long term security. Struggle to make it through life
Communism
- abolish private property
- the wealth of society is pooled
- you are guaranteed a job by government
- you will not get rich; will not be poor
- all needs taken care of by government
Violent revolution
A revolution where things must be destroyed , people killed , and strict order
Bolshevik
Russian communist
Fragging
Russian soldiers rebel against commanding officers and desert
Brest-litavsk
The treaty
The great purge
All aspects of Russian society reinvented to reflect Marxist ideology
New rules
All rprivate property banned . Religion banned . Last names obliterated . Title prefixes end . Marriage dissolved . Handshakes outlawed . Jewelry and cosmetics banned . Anything amAmerican and British banned
Soviets = union of soviet socialist republics
The council attached to pretty much everything
KGB
Secret police
